Am I the only one who has never encountered a mine shaft?

[Mason11987]

I've been playing with BTW and BTB for a while now (I also have some BC add-ons) and I have yet to see a mineshaft at all. I can't imagine either of these mods are causing any issue there but how can I verify that I didn't stupidly set generate structures off?

I need watermelons :)

[FlowerChild]

Yes.

[walker_boh_65]

I also have never encountered a SINGLE mine shaft.

[Gilberreke]

Shrödinger's yes.

[Aduis1210]

Have you encounted a npc village or stronghold?
if yes you have got generated structures on so u may have to go far to find a mineshaft try going 500 blocks from your normal mine and try there in every direction
otherwise the seed may be crap lol

[obl1terat1ion]

not one yet...

[redrew89]

It's possible to find them. You just have to look carefully, sometimes. How deep have you been digging? Most abandoned mineshafts are generated between y 10 and 30, mostly around the 20 mark. Dig a pit down to y 16, and then start digging tunnels in each direction until you encounter on. That, and you'll net plenty of iron, redstone, and gold in the process.

[MoRmEnGiL]

I've encountered a stronghold by accident in an old test map.

I've never seen a village or a mineshaft.

[Blueblade11]

I used to Find them all the time.

Come 1.1, they disappeared into nowhere...

[Urian]

Some semi recent version of vMC has made them way less frequent, yeah. Most of the ones I've found have been under deserts but that might have been coincidence.

[BigShinyToys]

Some semi recent version of vMC has made them way less frequent, yeah. Most of the ones I've found have been under deserts but that might have been coincidence.

I dont know I have noticed larger amounts of coal under a desert that any other biom. and while putting in a elevator found a 60 - 70 block high ravine that multiple mineshafts all merges there. it could be that different bioms generate different amounts of ors / shaft concentrations. But I couldn't say with any 100% certainty thought.

[echo off]

yes you are the only one... for once, it's everyone except FC that's trollin' you

[Mason11987]

I used to Find them all the time.

Come 1.1, they disappeared into nowhere...

Okay, at least someone has had this experience too.

[MoRmEnGiL]

Literally 2 hours after I posted that, I run into an underground ravine while mining, which, to my surprise, intersected with an abandoned mineshaft.

[Xekrom337]

I used to Find them all the time.

Come 1.1, they disappeared into nowhere...

Okay, at least someone has had this experience too.

funnily enough strip-mining i never found one, but digging straight down i fell into a mineshaft:P

[gftweek]

Roll back to 1.8 or whichever version they were introduced, you couldn't dig 30 blocks without hitting one, made lighting up the underground such a pain if you wanted an efficient mob grinder.